Recent content by DiamanteGeeza

You're either joking, in which case ha ha, or you don't fly very much.

My thoughts precisely. And, don't forget, the rating system is entirely voluntary on our part - we choose to agree, as an industry, to rate our games (we never get any credit for that in the press). Also, ESRB has no legal standing, so a game store can sell an M-rated game to a kid with...

I agree completely, but there may have been a valid reason they were unable to do this. I'm sure if they could have shut down a security loophole immediately, they would have...? And I'm sure they did. Verizon's engineers aren't stupid - my best guess to explain this is that it was secure...

Unless that API call was supposed to have your session pre-authenticated and never be used as an end-point? For whatever reason, an update somewhere changed that? Then you have a low priority and traffic feature, accidentally made insecure, said feature no longer on the QA sweep (for whatever...

I know that's how life should work, but with a system that incredibly massive, it's really easy to overlook the odd thing here and there or, it might have been secure at one point, but a change elsewhere (and unrelated) by one of the army of engineers had an unintended consequence that nobody...

The article said it was fixed "within a month", which sounds about right - you can't just hack in a 'quick fix' when you're talking about a database and network the size of Verizon's. Maybe they took that feature offline? That would seem like the best thing to do while it's being fixed, unless...

I hope so too. And anyway, the typical Sun reader won't make it past the first word in the headline due to a syllable overload.

Yep, because all of that is way quicker than moving your finger an inch and pressing a button. Perhaps there a fetish out there where people enjoy dying a lot in online shooters, because this seems tailor-made for them... And as for that advert...? Aside from it being completely terrible, it...

It definitely isn't anything to do with being lazy in this instance. Remember, this is an evolution of an engine which, evidently, has always had a signed int to store the money, but previous games didn't provide the capability to earn crazy amounts of cash. I imagine that it simply didn't occur...

I haven't played it yet, but is there the possibility that you can legitimately get into debt in the game? If so, that's why it's signed.

Nope, you can't do it. It doesn't matter if you have prior, clear samples of the voices of the people talking, unless one person has a really high pitched voice, and the other has a very, very deep voice, it's simply not possible to separate the two if its recorded using a single mic.

If any parent doesn't realize this applies to all 9 year old kids, and they shouldn't need to be told by a judge in order to know it, then they shouldn't be allowed to be a parent.

They have to be offering a damn sight more than a piddling $18k for any sane person to inflict that onto not only their bodies, but just think what it'll do to your mental state. I'd go stark raving mad lying down for that length of time, especially if I got picked to be in the...

In case anyone would like the perspective of a developer, pretty much every game engine in existence has a PC build of it. It's typically faster and easier to communicate with than a console, so this helps artists and designers iterate on in-game content quicker. And, just to get completely...